Happy Birthday, Turk! (Movie)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Happy Birthday, Turk! |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1992 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Doris Dörrie |
| script | Doris Dörrie, Jakob Arjouni (novel) |
| production | Gerd Huber, Renate Seefeldt |
| music |
Markus Lonardoni , Peer Ravens |
| camera | Helge Weindler |
| cut | Hana Müllner |
| occupation | |
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Happy Birthday, Turk! is a German crime comedy from 1992. Doris Dörrie was the director and screenplay . The film is based on the novel of the same name by Jakob Arjouni . The film premiered on January 9, 1992.
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The film takes place mainly in Frankfurt am Main and Kronberg im Taunus .
The Turkish-born private investigator Kemal Kayankaya receives a visit from Ilter Hamul. This instructs him to find the murderer of her husband Ahmed. She no longer has any confidence in the German police.
Kemal inquires at the police station on the pretext that he is from the Turkish embassy. However, when his real identity is revealed, he is denied further information. While investigating the family of his client Ilter, he discovered that Ahmed's late father-in-law Yasif Hamul had brought him into the drug scene. They dealt drugs together. Ahmed also put Ilter's sister Ayşe on drugs.
Kemal learns from the drug addict prostitute Hanna Hecht that she was also supplied with drugs by the couple Ahmed / Yasif and that she therefore had an affair with Yasif. Kemal is helped by the retired Commissioner Theobald Löff in his investigation.
Kemal finds out that Detective Superintendent Futt blackmailed Yasif into drug dealing. A girl from Kronberg who noticed this had to die as a result. When Yasif tried to get out of the drug scene, he was killed in a mysterious car accident in which Futt was also to blame.
Kemal tells the family that Ahmed was also killed by Futt. In reality, however, Ahmed was murdered by his brother-in-law, Yılmaz, in revenge for his drug-addicted sister.
Reviews
"A routinely staged crime thriller with comedic tones that tries to draw its charm from the clash of Turkish and German mentality, but ultimately relies too much on clichés, superficial genre patterns and some extremely brutal effects."
Hansa Czypionka was awarded the Bavarian Film Prize for best young actor for the lead role in the film .
Web links
- Happy Birthday, Turk! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Happy Birthday, Turk! at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Happy Birthday, Turk! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 19, 2017 .
- ↑ Announcer Birgit Schrowange, ZDF, Happy Birthday Türke.mpg on YouTube , March 6, 2011, accessed on December 3, 2018 (announcement about the film in the Montagskino series on ZDF; length 0:47 min.).